What do stencil artists have to say?

A recent work by Banksy, around L.A.

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Goldmine Shithouse - The Clown Flippers

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I'm not sure

what this is, but I like it.
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The Finger

The above emoticon, by Dan Wade, is dedicated to the Montreal fashion students fighting for their right of expression.And the following picture (The Red Ball No.1 (2000)), by Loretta Lux, is a counterbalance.Oh, how I love the static taste of play!(via)Technorati: visual...

A scary list.

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Is a Fake Pollock Better?

May not a Pollock forgery that passes for authentic be the best Pollock of all?- asks Don Foster in a recent article in N.Y.Times.Here is a more of the article, which will soon be unavailable for free reading: LAST year, 24 paintings were unveiled as previously unknown...

Young Fashion: The Thimble Scandal

Here is something spicy from an area I haven't been paying much attention to - fashion.I have received the above picture from Maryla Sobek, a friend who teaches at the Fashion School of the UQAM university (huge French-speaking university in Montreal, Canada). The picture,...

Light up the night

Have you heard of the LED throwies? It looks like very good "art material", doesn't it?
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Make performance art. Be positive.

"At this very moment, Rob Bohn is holding a red jacket in his hand and standing on the corner of 23rd and Broadway near the Flatiron Building.He is excruciatingly cold for he cannot wear his jacket unless he is given an orange.Simply find a way to get an orange to him...

Cindy Wright: the flesh of paint

Cindy Wright, Skin 2, Oil on canvas (2004)What I like about these works is that beyond their apparent photo-realism hides a playfulness only possible through painting. It is as if we discovered that beyond the surface of things lie some other levels of things which make...

Angela de la Cruz at the Culturgest: of guts and canvas

I Suppose Angela de la Cruz's art is usually described as the questioning of painting and stretching the limits of canvas. This seems to me not only obvious, but also not-that-fascinating. On the other hand, if we go beyond this label, we might just find a sculptoric experience...

Find

There are areas that somehow brush against art. Since a lot of recent works have been based on investigation and discovery of the extraordinary beneath the apparently mundane, this comes surprizingly close to the type of "everyday sociology" that dwelves into the everyday...

Map yourself, scratch the object

Everything I have ever... is one of those simple ideas that inspire me in my work.A large (A1) poster with tens and tens of objects drawn out in silver. Scratch one - and it turns orange, just like in a lottery ticket. You decide if it's everything you've ever lost, found,...

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik died yesterday.Few artists deserve the name of avant-garde artists as much as Paik did. His faith in the intimate link between technology and art was one of the fundaments of today's new art. Starting off in the early 60's, he was first more connected to live...

Sound Gardens

Hello again!Here is something that has been around for some time as an idea, with a few small-scale realized projects - but now it seems to be growing quite fast.The Tactical Sound Garden is an environment (i.e. potentially a physical space of any city) where users of devices...